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DERMOTT'S BEST MAN Why He Came to America After

Wedding That Happened Long Ago.

By FRANK FILSON.

Father O'Brien gave me a big wink when I had outlined my scheme to him. There wasn't a better sport than the Father in all the parishes round, and when it was a case of marrying a couple he'd move heaven and earth to bring it about. But the next time I went to see him there was no difficul-ty at all. I had caught Mary O'Toole's heart on the bounce and she wasn't the girl to go back on her word—not she.

Some people said it was a shabby trick to play, but I say a man's justi-fied in using any means he can to win the woman he loves. And didn't I love Mary—hadn't I loved her for years un-til that thundering limb of a Terence MacShane came along and stole her heart out of my keeping?

Mary and k had been born in the same week of the same year, and they say that when my father teamed I was a boy he called Phil . O'Toole into his bit of a parlor, first putting out the pig, because he wouldn't bring company into a stye.

"'Tie a_boy I'm after having, Bill," my father said. "What do you say to making a match of it between him and your girl?"

"I'm agreeable," says Phil O'Toole, draining off his glass of poetheen that never saw a government stamp. And so it was ratified, and nobody ever expected that it would turn out any different.

We might have been twenty or a bit more when Terence MacShane comes riding in from Limerick and sees Mary and dismounts to ask for a glass of milk. I was away then, minding the still—bad cess to the.gov-ernment. We had to keep it running down in the bog lands where the smoke wouldn't rise above the mists, because there were government peo-ple all over Munster.

When I came back a few days later I found Terence sittfng, bold as brass, in Mary's cottage, and her very close to him and listening to all his gabble.

He Scowled at Me and I Scowled at Him.

When she saw me she started away, confused and guilty like, but I didn't take notice of the girl.

"Won't you come out where the sun's shilling and take your dose, Mr. MacShane?" says I.

Up he springs and out he comes and we had a fine tussle in the corn-fields; but, Being he had my advantage by four inches and twenty pounds, it wasn't long before he had me down.

"Do you give me best, Mister Der-rnott?" he asks, sneering. But I said nothing and Terence rose with a laugh and went into Mary's cottage again. There wasn't a scratch or a bruise on him, either.

Well, that settled that, and I packed and got ready to take the boat for Cork, thinking maybe I'd go to Amer-ica. I knew there were bigger fishes in the sea than I'd hooked yet. But my heart was sore for Mary O'Toole, and I couldn't stay in Dunchestown any longer.

Who should I meet at the dock but Terence himself, with his pack, and he scowled at me and I scowled at him; and then we both burst out laughing.

"So we're both in the same boat, Terence,' I says. "There's an hour yet. Come, tell me all about it."

He told me, and I learned that he and Mary had quarreled bitterly the night before about some trifle—I think it was whether Limerick had better pigs than Dunchestown—and she had flung his ring in his face and slammed the door on him. By the time he had made an end of telling me we found that we had missed the boat. But by that time Terence had began to feel differently. He decided to go back to Limerick and not try his fortunes in Cork at all.

I didn't tell him my plans, but I saw him aboard the train and made my way back to Dunchestown. I was a long way from the cottage when I saw Mary sitting Inside. She wasn't stirring hand or foot, and that meant Something for Mary. When I got In her eyes were wet with crying.

"Mary, asthore," says I, "I've come back to you. Won't you take me?"

She put her head on my shoulder and cried there. And that's how I caught her heart on the bounce, as I said.

The wedding day was all settled, but very soon I saw that it was Ter-ece all the time and not me she cared for. Faith, there's no telling how a girl's tastes will run. And I saw there wouldn't be overmuch happiness in store for us, but I wasn't going to let a Limerick man, and a giant at that, steal her from one of the Dermotts. So I made out I didn't see through her pretense at caring for me.

As for Terence, I met him once when I was into Limerick with a drove of hogs. He looked at me sort of surly, but didn't bear malice when I went up and spoke to him. I found out that he loved Mary just as much as ever. But I didn't feel any more like losing the pride of Dunchestown to a Limerick man. So I put my trou-bles before the priest.

When Father O'Brien had heard my scheme for making an end of Terence, I mean as a possible cause of trouble after the ceremony, he winked and clapped me on the back.

"Mary," I said that evening, "who do you think's going to be best man at the wedding next Thursday? Who but Terence MacShane?"

She started an began to .protest. But I told her the priest had arranged that all enmity should be drowned in this way, and if the bridegroom couldn't choose his own best man who was going to do it for him? She fought over it for long, but at last I told her if she didn't allow it I'd refuse her at the ceremony and shame her before all the village. You ought to have seen the look she gave me then. If my head was as thick as a Limerick man's I'd have known why she was marrying me then. It was to spite Terence. And yet she couldn't bear to have him at the wedding.

I got her consent at last, after the Father had put in his word, and Thursday came, as a good many Thursdays have come along since then. We met Terence at the door, looking very sheepish and very wretched. I think the Father had word with his priest in Limerick and made him come as a penance for something. Anwyay, there he stood, scowling at me and never looking at Mary, and she nearer crying than laughing. It was a strange sort of wedcling.

Then the Father began, and when he came to asking the questions he sort of looked up inquiringly. I knew my cue bad come.

"Wilt thou take this woman to bA thy wedded wife?" he asked me, and I slipped out and caught Terence by the arm and dragged him up to Mary.

"Say 'yes,' TeTence," I whispered, and ho said it quick as a flash. And the bans had been in his name, too, but nobody could read the Father's writing.

No, I didn't stay for the wedding breakfast. The fact is, I slipped out through the door before the ceremony was over. But that's how I came to America after all. It happened a long time ago, and–Lwell, I've almost for-gotten now. .(Copyright,' 1913, by W. G. Chapman.)

LEFT ATTORNEYS TO TALK

While They Summed up Judge Went to Get in Some Hay, Leaving His '

Decision in Court.

Having a little fun with the jus-tices of the supremo court at a re-cent dinner, Counselor Wilson C. Tip-ple told a story of how some deci-sions are rendered. He related the case of a North Carolina justice who had just been elected to the bench.

This justice, said Mr. Tipple, had the partition between the two front rooms of his home removed and here he was to hold court. His first case was before him and the evidence was all in. The attorney for the prosecu-tion announced that he was ready to sum up and that it would take him about one hour. The attorney for the defense said that it would require an hour and fifteen minutes for him to properly present his side of the COE10.

"His worship"—Mr. Tupple said they called a judge "Your worship" down in that neck of the woods—scratched his head in thought for a moment and then wrote a few lines on a slip of paper, which he carefully placed under a book on his desk. He then addressed the attorneys:

"You gentlemen can have this room to talk in as long as you like, and when you are all through you can look at this piece of paper under this book; there you will find my decision all written out. I'm going out in the fields and get in some hay."—Brook-lyn Eagle.

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